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Head Coach Ashley Buckley

Ashley Buckley enters her third season as head volleyball coach at Augustana in 2010.

A recent recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Thirty Under 30 Award, Buckley has totaled a career record of 37-29 as the leader of Viking volleyball.
Buckely's squad is coming off a 14-18 (9-11 NSIC) campaign in 2009 after going 23-11 (15-5 NSIC) in 2008, her first season with the team and Augustana's first year in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.  During her inaugural season in 2008, Buckley also led the Vikings to their sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and 12th in last 13 years.

Before being named Augustana’s eighth head volleyball coach, Buckley spent the 2007 season as Kim Sudbeck's top assistant. Buckley joined the Viking coaching staff prior to the 2007 season after spending the 2006 campaign as an assistant coach at the University of Sioux Falls.

A Sioux Falls native, Buckley, the former Ashley Pederson, was a starting outside hitter at Penn State University from 2001-2004. As a team captain, Buckley led the Nittany Lions to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances, two Big Ten Conference championships (2003 and 2004), and the 2003 NCAA Elite Eight. Buckley holds the Penn State record for single-season attempts (1,444) and is also ninth overall in career kills (1,340) and third in career attempts (3,733). The Nittany Lions posted a record of 107-24 during her collegiate career.

Following her collegiate career, Buckley played professionally in the Superliga Femenina with the Club Cajasur of Cordoba, Spain and with the Gigantes of Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Buckley earned her bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from Penn State in 2005.

Buckley and her husband Jeff live in Sioux Falls with their first child Bausten.